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Rebuilding America's Communities: A Comprehensive Community Wealth Building Federal Policy Proposal

Fighting for a new systemic vision Centering community and place

This report draws upon practical experience accumulated over the years in many areas and proposes a strategic approach to integrate, expand, and coordinate a powerful array of activities focused on promoting community wealth building in the nation’s distressed communities. Or, to put it more simply, to place community wealth building squarely at the center of federal economic revitalization policy.

Publication date: 2010-03-31
Parent publication: University of Maryland
Publisher: The Democracy Collaborative
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